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Home Sewing Patterns 1940s Vintage Style Tea Dress | Dressmaking Pattern

1940s Vintage Style Tea Dress | Dressmaking Pattern

Difficulty

Intermediate

Material

Crepe

Designer

Amanda Walker

Size

8-24

Techniques

Dressmaking

Pattern Guide

Download

Difficulty

Intermediate

Material

Crepe

Designer

Amanda Walker

Size

8-24

Techniques

Dressmaking

Pattern Guide

Download

About this pattern

Amanda Walker’s 1940s style tea dress sewing pattern is a must-make garment for lovers of retro fashion.

An exciting challenge for beginner sewers, this vintage style dress with a flattering V-neck will teach you how to create even fabric gathers, how to install a concealed zip and how to make a midriff band. It’s a classic style and an easy-to-follow pattern – what more could a dressmaker want!

Essentials

Fabric, 2.5m (150cm)
Concealed zip, 56cm
Lightweight fusible interfacing, 20cm

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Top sewing tip

New to gathering stitches? Practise on a spare piece of dress fabric to get the correct fullness, stitch two parallel lines of long stitches 6mm apart and do not back-stitch the ends, separate the top threads from the bobbin threads at each end, tie off the top threads, then push the fabric along the bobbin threads to the correct width; some machines have a gathering foot that can work a gathered top layer onto a flat bottom fabric at the same time.